NaNoWriMo is kicking my ass.

Seriously. I'm not even at 33k and I'm tired and my hands hurt and my back cracks every time I move.

I'm now learning that the novel writing process is extremely painful as well as extremely gratifying.

Tip on the Nano site says when you're struggling you need to kill a character. I'm only dealing with my main characters at present and I can't kill them.

Wait...I need to write in a scene where they travel to a village.

Someone in this village NEEDS to die.

Violently.

I'm feeling good about that. Maybe I'll TSoD them!

I hope I can write 9000 words over the next two days. I did it before when I deleted all of Chapter 4. I can do it again.

I can, by God!

Take that Nano!

I might be down, but I'm still spitting out words like a pugilist spits out teeth.

I'm not out of this race yet.

My brand new shiny author blog...

So, what do I need another blog for?

I asked myself the same question before I made the decision to create this blog.

Basically, when I went to the St. Petersburg Pier to take part in signing books for "Zombie Nation: St. Pete," an anthology in which my story "The Lust, The Flesh" appears, I got to hang out with some folks who have been doing this writing thing for awhile, and one of the most important things I learned from them was: I need to get a more professional image. Out of the dozen or so of us that were there, I'd bet that more than half put out business cards. I had never thought of business cards before. Some of my new comrades gave me their cards and another thing I noticed was that many of them had nice author websites.

I am a long way from getting a professional web site. I've been flirting with WordPress for awhile, but I'm scared of the techy stuff involved with it. Someday I'll dip my tootsies in those high-fallutin waters.

In the interim, I created this site. An author site for me, with an author address:

http://mariakellyauthor.blogspot.com

I guess I need to get working on those business cards now.